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Humans and others will also willingly wear the leathery skin of Worgen and sentient animal avatars from ZG. Azeroth is a brutal place, where survival and death are next door neighbors.

That's true - dragonkin are skinnable, murlocs drop shiny fish scales or whatever they are that are used in leatherworking, and worgen are skinnable. I wonder if player worgen will be skinnable? It'll be a strange day when Horde leatherworkers hit the BGs to farm mats.

Very doubtfull, Taurens arent skinnable either.

Well, why not? Remember, in a fantasy world, you can even talk to the trees (and frequently do, indeed most of the trees I've spoken to on Azeroth seemed smarter than the murlocs, or even orcs, indeed seem nearly as wise as the elves themselves). Does it bother the vegetarians that they're killing and eating living beings who they can communicate with if they try? The main reason not to eat a murloc is that they taste fishy. How smart they are just don't enter into it. I know, I know, they do it in Westfall, but Westfall cuisine is largely based on past dares...

Murlocs taste good, Ogres and Gnolls dun't.

Lets be honest, on Azeroth, humans would be considered a subsentient race if they tasted good. Tauren regularly inject themselves with poisonous substances and Blood Elves won't let anyone sniff near them incase they realise how good they taste.

Plus, look at gnomes. The few people who have (knowingly) tried them claim, quite regularly, that they are a vile, evil, subsentient race, just to justify them as food.

Nobody mentions the centaur skins you see everywhere in Orc settlements, in particular Orgrimmar? They are more than a half-sentient race. ofcourse they are violent, but they are supposedly the bastard sons of Cenarius.